WITH only weeks since A-ha announced they were to split, it appears that this was the band’s final ever appearance in Birmingham.

I still remember the first moment I saw the chiselled cheekbones of Morten Harket and friends Magne Furuholmen and Paul Waaktaar as they ran through a cartoon video to ‘Take On Me’, but would this last time be as memorable?

It may be two decades later but the high-pitched, distinctive vocals and striking Norwegian looks are amazingly untouched by time.

Opening with The Sun Always Shines On TV, the trio kicked off an epic of a show with a surprisingly lengthy back catalogue.